Over The Wire

Bandit

Host: bandit.labs.overthewire.org

Port: 2220

Level 11

ssh bandit11@bandit.labs.overthewire.org -p 2220
password: 6zPeziLdR2RKNdNYFNb6nVCKzphlXHBM

Objective:

The password for the next level is stored in the file data.txt, where all lowercase (a-z) and uppercase (A-Z) letters have been rotated by 13 positions.

  • $ cat data.txt | tr 'A-Za-z' 'N-ZA-Mn-za-m'
  • tr <'old_chars'> <'new_chars'> is the translate command"

ROT13 cipher: 'A-Za-z' 'N-ZA-Mn-za-m'

ROT5 cipher: '5-90-4'

CLI:

bandit11@bandit:~$ cat data.txt | tr 'A-Za-z' 'N-ZA-Mn-za-m'
The password is JVNBBFSmZwKKOP0XbFXOoW8chDz5yVRv
bandit11@bandit:~$

Bandit